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Coming of Age, Fantasy, Thriller, Young Adult
Tour: Illuminated by Iris Marsh

Tour: Illuminated by Iris Marsh

In this coming-of-age YA contemporary fantasy, a teenage girl has her life turned upside down when her family is breaking apart, and she discovers her supernatural powers. There’s no time to deal with it, however, as she’s targeted by a dangerous power-siphoner. Nikki Chase, a 16-year-old striver, feels like her life is falling apart around

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Coming of Age, Contemporary, New Adult, Romance
Blitz Sign-Up: Letting Go by Jacquie Biggar

Blitz Sign-Up: Letting Go by Jacquie Biggar

A coming-of-age novel about the pain of misconceptions and learning from them. When life gives you lemons… Izzy Mom is barely in the grave and the prodigal child is here to pick the bones clean. I don’t want her here. My sister’s defection is a wound that won’t heal, and her return simply rubs at

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Coming of Age, New Adult, Romance, Young Adult
Blitz Sign-Up: Love on the Line 2 by Kirsten Fullmer

Blitz Sign-Up: Love on the Line 2 by Kirsten Fullmer

In part two of this extraordinary love story set in the hot, humid, summer of the wide-open mid-west, egos and emotions collide. Andy and Rooster find their romance in peril when job-related stress, injuries, and extraordinary weather conditions interfere with their relationship, both at work and at home. Andrea has come to understand working outdoors in inhospitable

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Coming of Age, Young Adult
Blitz Sign-Up: East of Everywhere by Susan Pogorzelski

Blitz Sign-Up: East of Everywhere by Susan Pogorzelski

It’s been almost a decade since the end of the war, when the telegram first arrived at their house on Lennox Lane. Four years since the apartment on Harker Street, where food was scarce and nights were long and their mother slept away her grief. Three months since Janie was forced to leave her little

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Coming of Age, Romance, Young Adult
Blitz Sign-Up: Thorn of Secrets by B. Truly

Blitz Sign-Up: Thorn of Secrets by B. Truly

In love with the same face that haunts me…. The falling leaves of autumn are like the deceit in my family lineage. Closing the door on the infinite cold—winter blossoms into the spring of new beginnings. In the next season of my life, I’m mending the pieces back together. Opening myself up, I even begin

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Coming of Age, Romance, Young Adult
Cover Reveal Sign-Up: Thorn of Secrets by B. Truly

Cover Reveal Sign-Up: Thorn of Secrets by B. Truly

In love with the same face that haunts me…. The falling leaves of autumn are like the deceit in my family lineage. Closing the door on the infinite cold—winter blossoms into the spring of new beginnings. In the next season of my life, I’m mending the pieces back together. Opening myself up, I even begin

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Coming of Age
Blitz Sign-Up: Combustible by Al Riske

Blitz Sign-Up: Combustible by Al Riske

It’s that summer between the end of high school and the start of something else. Dean Stockton and Curt Hutton are best friends, and more often than not you can find them rowing on the Rogue River at dawn. Together they experience something they will never be able to describe adequately. But then they won’t

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Coming of Age, Young Adult
Blitz Sign-Up: Catwalk by Nicole Gabor

Blitz Sign-Up: Catwalk by Nicole Gabor

Eighteen-year-old, shy, suburban aspiring model Cat Watson suddenly has it all as the New York fashion world’s new “It” girl and she thinks she has everything she ever dreamed of—until she realizes be careful what you wish for, you just might get it. Leaving her good-girl image behind, Cat quickly learns things aren’t always what

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Coming of Age, Contemporary, LGBTQ+
Blitz Sign-Up: Crystal’s House of Queers by Brooke Skipstone

Blitz Sign-Up: Crystal’s House of Queers by Brooke Skipstone

Three senior girls in rural Alaska escape their abusive pasts  by raising their dyke flag for themselves and their community. Crystal Rose woke up at three in the morning today, drenched in sweat and breathless after another sex dream with Haley Carson. Later at school in the tiny town of Clear, Alaska, Crystal saves Haley from

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Coming of Age, Romance, Young Adult
Tour: Scorn of Secrets by B. Truly

Tour: Scorn of Secrets by B. Truly

I must keep it locked away—the memory of my darkest secret…. When the rising tides of my life peak, I’m left struggling with the currents of the storm. The first dilemma is my dad’s gambling debt. Mama bounces back quickly from the ramifications it causes. She proves this by getting a new man. Her Rico

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Coming of Age, Contemporary, Young Adult
Blitz Sign-Up: Dead Sea by Mia Kerick

Blitz Sign-Up: Dead Sea by Mia Kerick

Kyle is a swaggering bully; Lenny strives to be invisible. Kyle has been left alone in the world; Lenny is the world’s biggest loner. When Kyle saves Lenny from drowning, their lives will never be the same. After a brutal encounter with school bullies, Lenny swims out into the ocean, determined to let the current

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Coming of Age, Contemporary, Young Adult
Tour: The Half-Orphan’s Handbook by Joan F. Smith

Tour: The Half-Orphan’s Handbook by Joan F. Smith

For fans of John Green and Emily X.R. Pan, The Half-Orphan’s Handbook by Joan F. Smith is a coming-of-age story and an empathetic, authentic exploration of grief with a sharp sense of humor and a big heart. It’s been three months since Lila lost her father to suicide. Since then, she’s learned to protect herself from pain

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Coming of Age, Romance, Young Adult
Blitz Sign-Up: Scorn of Secrets by B. Truly

Blitz Sign-Up: Scorn of Secrets by B. Truly

I must keep it locked away—the memory of my darkest secret…. When the rising tides of my life peak, I’m left struggling with the currents of the storm. The first dilemma is my dad’s gambling debt. Mama bounces back quickly from the ramifications it causes. She proves this by getting a new man. Her Rico

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Coming of Age, Romance, Young Adult
Cover Reveal Sign-Up: Scorn of Secrets by B. Truly

Cover Reveal Sign-Up: Scorn of Secrets by B. Truly

I must keep it locked away—the memory of my darkest secret…. When the rising tides of my life peak, I’m left struggling with the currents of the storm. The first dilemma is my dad’s gambling debt. Mama bounces back quickly from the ramifications it causes. She proves this by getting a new man. Her Rico

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Coming of Age, Fairy Tales, Young Adult
Blitz Sign-Up: Little Hood and Her Wolf by Janie Marie

Blitz Sign-Up: Little Hood and Her Wolf by Janie Marie

Kylie knew Logan Grimm came with a price. She just had no idea that the price was being told what to do by the most dangerous residents of Blackwoods. She should run and survive, but Logan’s sweet words and even sweeter kisses keep her where she is.  Right where the Big Bad Wolf lies in

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Coming of Age, Fairy Tales, Young Adult
Blitz Sign-Up: Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? by Janie Marie

Blitz Sign-Up: Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? by Janie Marie

Fantasizing about Trevor Grimm is Kylie Hood’s favorite escape from her cruel reality. So, when he asks for her help on a school project, sparks are bound to fly and her dreams are going to come true . . . Not in this fairy tale. No, everything changes when Kylie meets Logan Grimm, Trevor’s older

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Coming of Age, Fairy Tales, Young Adult
Cover Reveal Sign-Up: Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? by Janie Marie

Cover Reveal Sign-Up: Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? by Janie Marie

Fantasizing about Trevor Grimm is Kylie Hood’s favorite escape from her cruel reality. So, when he asks for her help on a school project, sparks are bound to fly and her dreams are going to come true . . . Not in this fairy tale. No, everything changes when Kylie meets Logan Grimm, Trevor’s older

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Coming of Age, Young Adult
Review Opportunity: Just Shelby by Brooklyn James

Review Opportunity: Just Shelby by Brooklyn James

A secret note square found in a handmade guitar proves that small town gossip is not only ubiquitous but occasionally true. This gossip comes with strings rivaling those on Ace Cooper’s guitar, the safest strings he will ever have around his heart. Ace’s father warns him to stay away from the Lynn girl. Daughter of

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Coming of Age, Young Adult
Blitz Sign-Up: I Am Here Now by Barbara Bottner

Blitz Sign-Up: I Am Here Now by Barbara Bottner

Set in the 1960s, Barbara Bottner’s I Am Here Now is a beautiful novel in verse about one artist’s coming of age. It’s a heartbreaking, powerful and inspiring depiction of what it’s like to shatter your life—and piece it all back together.

You can’t trust Life to give you decent parents, or beautiful eyes, a fine French

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Coming of Age, New Adult, Romance, Sports
Tour: The Diary of a Late Bloomer by L.M.L Gil

Tour: The Diary of a Late Bloomer by L.M.L Gil

Every wallflower blooms at their own perfect time, but some like quirky Lo, take longer than others. Lo is a sheltered 20-year-old who loves baking, manga/anime, and octopi. When she spots her college swim team’s tryout flyer sporting her favorite sea creature, an octopus she knows it’s a sign that she must join the Flying

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Coming of Age, Historical, Young Adult
Blitz Sign-Up: Reverend of Silence by Pamela Sparkman

Blitz Sign-Up: Reverend of Silence by Pamela Sparkman

A coming of age story about faith, love, and overcoming society’s prejudices during the American Antebellum period. In 1810, Lucy Hallison suffered from a severe illness at the age of three, and later recovered, a deaf-mute. Unable to relate to the world in which she lives, she’s often ignored and sometimes treated with cruelty. Until

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Coming of Age, New Adult, Romance, Young Adult
Tour: Love on the Line by Kirsten Fullmer

Tour: Love on the Line by Kirsten Fullmer

Andrea is an ordinary girl in an extraordinary situation. She left her comfortable home and family to take a job building a pipeline with her estranged grandpa, Buck. She’s curious about his job, and why her mother dislikes the man. She didn’t expect to uncover buried family secrets, or for the job to be so

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Coming of Age, Fantasy, Young Adult
Blitz Sign-Up: Meet Me in the Strange by Leander Watts

Blitz Sign-Up: Meet Me in the Strange by Leander Watts

2019 IPPY SILVER MEDALIST – YOUNG ADULT Meet Me in the Strange is an intoxicating adventure set in a glittery, retro-futuristic world of glam rock, spectral aliens, and gender-bendy teens. Davi is mesmerized by a girl at a concert, who appears to lose herself in the power of the otherworldy music of Django Conn. Later,

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Adult, Coming of Age, Women's Fiction
Blitz Sign-Up: Crossed Lines by Lana Sky

Blitz Sign-Up: Crossed Lines by Lana Sky

Psychopath. Borderline. Crazy.  Seventeen-year-old Maryanne Mayweather wears each term like a badge of pride. Expelled from her twelfth boarding school, she lands on the doorstep of her flighty aunt Elaine and Elaine’s husband James, one more screw-up away from being made a ward of the state. Once a successful author, the last thing James Thorne

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